Dear Colleague, Below please find the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center's weekly event listings. Our special section on BIO-related events is starting to fill out - please feel free to send me any events you would like to see listed for next week. New event titles since last week are in red. For the latest news visit our web site at www.masslifesciences.com. Also, the Center is now on Twitter! See the link at the bottom of this email to follow us on Twitter. If you are receiving this email as a forward, you can sign up to receive these emails directly by using the "Join Our Mailing List" button at the bottom of this message. Event sponsors are welcome to email me event information. We accept event information up until 12:00 p.m. on Thursday to appear in the weekly listings the following Monday. -Angus Angus G. McQuilken Vice President for Communications Massachusetts Life Sciences Center [email protected] Upcoming Application Deadlines: No application deadlines are pending, however the Center has announced the opening of applications for this year's Internship Challenge, the Center's flagship workforce development program. Students, recent college graduates and companies that may want to participate are encouraged to learn more here. BIO International Convention: The 2012 BIO International Convention will be held June 18-21 in Boston. Have you registered to attend? You can learn more at http://convention.bio.org. BioSpace will host the BIO Career Fair on Monday, June 18th in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center. Free to job seekers. If you are interested in a recruiting booth, please reserve early. http://www.biocareerfair.org/ Digital BIO Brochure Links: 2012 Highlights Brochure: featuring suggested itineraries, sponsors, super sessions, BIO Exhibition overview, registration info, housing, schedule at a glance, and more 2012 Breakout Sessions: Supplement: featuring descriptions and times of all confirmed sessions 2012 Partnering Supplement: featuring "How to partner successfully", map, testimonials, and more 9th Annual Community College Day at BIO: When: June 18, 2012 7:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Where: The Westin Waterfront Boston Hotel, 425 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210 Registration: http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1061901 This ninth annual BIO-associated day-long event features perspectives on biotechnology education, training and the workforce from community college educators and their industry partners plus a time to network with colleagues. Register online by credit card for the $150 fee per person. There will be no on site registration. Price includes continental breakfast and delicious buffet lunch. BioBriefing: Biotech for the Non- Scientist When: June 17, 2012 from 9:00am- 4:30pm Where: Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, 425 Summer St, Boston, MA Registration: Pre-registration is required. No registration day of class, no walk- ins. http://biotechprimerinc.com/bio2012.php Instructors: Emily Burke, Ph.D; tim Fawcett, Ph.D; Amy Howes, Ph.D; Collins Jones, Ph.D; Karin Lucas, Ph.D; Ted McCluskey, MD, Ph.D; Kelly McDonald, Ph.D; Lisa A. Selbie, Ph.D; Simon J. Tullock, MD; Marian Downing, RBP, CBSP; Patricia L. Larrabee, M.S. BIO is providing convention attendees the opportunity to learn the basics of biotech the day prior to the 2012 BIO International Convention in one of three classes: BioBriefing, Drug Development Briefing and Diagnostics Briefing. These affiliated classes will require a separate attendee registration and payment to be made by the participants. Questions? Contact Kerri Muir at 410-377-4429 ext. 22 or [email protected] Massachusetts-related sessions at BIO: Crossing Borders and Boundaries: Emerging Strategies to Promote International Collaboration When: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 from 2:00pm- 2:45pm Where: Room Location: 254A Learn more here: http://mybio.zerista.com/event/member/46433 RSVP Here: http://bio2012internationalcollaboration.eventbrite.com Collaboration across borders is revolutionizing the process of innovation and commercialization. Come learn new approaches to international collaboration and how it can positively affect your region or your business. Panelists from leading biotech regions (Massachuestts, North Carolina, Israel & Catalonia) will discuss their strategies for effective international collaboration in biopharma R&D, manufacturing and investment. Learning Objectives: Describe emerging trends in international collaboration Evaluate ideas for expanding international collaboration Identify best practices for cross-cultural collaboration Speakers: Avi Hasson: Chairman, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor of Israel Bill Bullock, Vice President for Bioscience Industrial Development, North Carolina Biotechnology Center Montserrat Vendrell, CEO, Biocat, BioRegion of Catalonia Susan Windham- Bannister, President & CEO, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Moderator: Jos Scheffelaar, CEO & Co-Founder, Launch in US Alliance Orphan Disease Forum - Specialized Marketing & Sales: A Vision for Orphan and Targeted Therapies When: Wednesday, June 20, 8:30 am - 9:45 am Where: Room #209 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center Website: http://mybio.zerista.com/event/member/46585#speakers Donna LaVoie will moderate a panel at the 2012 BIO International Convention titled, "Specialized Marketing & Sales: A Vision for Orphan and Targeted Therapies." Biotech companies have paved the way for specialized marketing approaches for orphan diseases since the early 1990s. Some companies have developed life-changing therapies that truly change disease states. Today, biotech/pharma leaders have jumped in. But can all companies large and small find the focus for these orphan diseases and put the patient first? What are the obstacles associated with creating a specialized marketing and sales effort for orphan drugs? Gain critical understanding of how companies are employing specialized marketing and sales approaches that are patient-centric. Speakers on the panel include: Kyle Brown Founder & CEO of Innolyst Jayne Gershokowitz, Senior Director of Patient Advocacy & Public Policy of Amicus Therapeutics Mark Rothera, Global President of Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Rogerio Vivaldi, SVP and Head of Rare Disease Business Unit of Genzyme Using Systems Biology to "Fast-Track" Development and Approval of Novel Therapeutics and Diagnostics When: Thursday, June 21st, 2012, 10:00 am - 11:30 am. Where: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Overview of Systems Biology and how its application can determine more precisely and quickly which biomarkers are relevant to specific diseases for diagnosis or therapeutic intervention. This approach can also determine subgroups or different genotypes within these diseases in developing a diagnostic test that will determine whether a patient will respond to a specific drug with minimal side effects. Drugs can now be targeted for a specific set of patients resulting in higher efficacy. In return, the FDA requirements for the number of patients required for the phase I-III trials may be smaller, the cost and time for R&D will be reduced and the approval time will be shorter. Moderator: 1) Regina Au, MBA, MIM - Principal, Strategic Marketing Consultant at BioMarketing Insight Speakers: 1) David E. Hill, PhD - Research Scientist in Cancer Biology and Associate Director of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). 2) Glenn Miller, PhD - Vice President / Head of Personalized Medicine, Astra Zeneca 3) Steven Tregay, PhD - Founder, President, and CEO of Forma Therapeutics 4) FDA Speaker - TBD For details on the session and speakers go to http://biomarketinginsight.com/Events.htm AvaMed 2012: The MedTech Conference In addition to BIO International, Massachusetts will host this year's AdvaMed convention October 1-3 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Organizers expect 2,500+ attendees, coming from companies ranging in size from the multi-billon down to start-ups. You can count on this being a terrific business development opportunity, because it brings together the decision-makers from all the business channels under one roof. Last year, 34% of the attendees had the title of vice president and above. Learn more here! Featured Events: Fourth Annual Progress Toward Winning the War on Cancer When: May 3, 2012 from 1pm-7pm Where: Merck Research Labratories Boston, 33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA Guest Speakers: Kenneth C. Anderson, MD- Kraft Family Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor Director, LeBow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics Director, Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Carl Barrett, PhD- Vice President IMED Translational Science AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP Sriram Sathyanarayanan, PhD- Translational Oncology Lead, Merck Research Labratories Pasi A. Janne, MD, PhD- Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Scientific Director Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Science We hope you will be joining us for the Fourth Annual Progress Toward Winning the War on Cancer symposium at Merck Research Laboratories Boston, presented by MassBio and the American Cancer Society. RSVP by April 23 to [email protected] or call 508-270-4885 For more information, visit: http://acs-ne.informz.net/acs- ne/data/images/acs_mbc_2012_symposium_agenda.pdf BIOMED Israel When: May 21-23,2012 Where: Tel Aviv, Israel BioMed Executive Delegation is only open to senior